Compute
Sizing Up Compute Engines For HPC Work At 64-Bit Precision
If you want a CPU that has the floating point performance of a GPU, all you have to do is wait six or so years and the CPU roadmaps can catch up. …
HPC
HPC
The Hidden Cost Of Compromise: Why HPC Still Demands Precision
PARTNER CONTENT: As the technology industry continues its shift towards AI dominance, an important schism is opening up that threatens to impact scientific progress, along with important humanitarian endeavors such as disaster response. …
HPC
HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale
The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise back in December 2023 to build a prototype hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer nicknamed “Hunter” to pave the way towards an exascale-class machine it is budgeting to have installed in 2027 called “Herder.” …
HPC
Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer
For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. …
HPC
LRZ Adopts Nvidia Engines For €250 Million “Blue Lion” Supercomputer In 2027
The expansion of the computing capacity in Europe for both traditional HPC simulation as well as AI training and modeling continues apace, with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum lab in Germany announcing late last week (when we took a day of holiday) that it would be shelling out €250 million – about $262.7 million at current exchange rates – to build a hybrid CPU-GPU cluster based on Nvidia compute engines to tackle both kinds of high performance computing. …
HPC
HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the parts to build the machines. …
AI
AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus Alike
Speeds and feeds are great, but hardware is only as useful as the software that can harness it, and, for AMD, that’s the ROCm software stack. …
AI
Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress
Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation. …
Compute
Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs
Intel was the first of the major CPU makers to add HBM stacked DRAM memory to a CPU package, with the “Sapphire Rapids” Max Series Xeon SP processors. …
AI
NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint
You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. …